If you’re looking for a new place to relocate, you should consider it 10 times before deciding to move to a big metropolitan area. What if a smaller town would suit you better? You wouldn’t want to decide on something that you’d later regret, right?
Perhaps you never considered moving to a smaller town, but it’s never too late to make the right decision. So make sure you don’t overlook any of the benefits that would come along the way. Obviously, we’ll start by saying that nothing compares with the peace and quietness that these cities would offer you.
But you also have to consider the fact that a smaller place will give you a tight-knit community, active senior groups, and a lower crime rate. Not to mention the low living costs! It all sounds amazing, right? These are 9 smaller towns where you could have all of the things listed above…and more!
25 thoughts on “9 Amazing Small Towns to Retire In”
Yes, everyone that works should have benefits for their retirement.
You’re right about that !! However if you happen to purchase or already own a property in a really desirable area, now a days, as a senior person, you can end up being harassed in rather sophisticated ways, just because someone one else wants your property.
Regarding article by Dorothy ,”9 Amazing Small Towns to Retire In” Middletown, Connecticut is first. I grew up in Middletown and visit once in a while. Restaurants are a too many thing on Main Street,etc. The ability to purchase newspapers for local news is gone. Unless a college-related bookstore has changed its mind. It is no longer a Barnes/Noble corporate bookstore. Central News, a longtime outlet is long gone and is replaced by a sandwich shop. A lunch place called Ford News has no newspapers despite its name and serves meals like a diner till midafternoon . Also on Main Street north of that location is another diner. Both have been main stays on Main Street long before these new food palaces arrived on the scene and seem to give Middletown its new reputation. As for Wesleyan Univ., one must live downtown to only walk to campus for amenities. Middletown Area Transit buses operate Mon-Sat 6am-6pm only. I would like my former city to be like other New England towns with a operating main street. Grocery stores have left downtown also. Drug stores also are gone from downtown
your main gripe seems to be you can’t get a newspaper!?
Bruce, I believe she is talking about the changes, including the local newspapers, which we all like. I feel her pain….my hometown turned into a poverty-stricken sad town. The Main Street I loved….is taken over by homeless, and often drug dens. Bruce, I think we should focus on how to bring back the feeling of safety and love we felt in our hometowns, so that our grandchildren, etc., will know how sustaining a “hometown” can be.
I concur with Melanie. Newspaper access is important. A local grocery store is also important. As baby boomers, it is important to still have memories of our bygone era too. I despise college towns because of the rude students who don’t have respect for retired people and they always want change to accommodate their own selfish needs.
I just reviewed this posting. I live in PA, grew up here outside of Philadelphia suburbs.
Lived in Maine(to much snow), Texas (Tornados scary), then Florida (to many Hurricanes),
came back to PA feeling I can deal with occasional snow. We have plenty of medical facilities, Grocery stores, Pharmacy and local businesses. I own my home convenience I love this area 35 yrs. Wonderful with Historical Sites,museums and local activities.
No, I am retired, and before they fund everyone they need to pay us retirees that worked their butts off to work to retirement and paid into what was known as S/S. Another way for people to sit on their butts and not have to do NOTHING to pay for their way!!!
Get Out And Vote Save America Trump/Vance Save Our Country Save SS Take Care Of Our Own Pass It On
We have to vote and vote for the personwho protect social security and Medicare and not give it away to people who are not citizens
i agree
A lot of your choices seem rather cold winter locations
LOL now that is funny. They say Hilo Hawaii is expensive, than they list Bozeman Montana.
Hawaii is dirt cheap compared to Bozeman Montana. Want to go broke, move to Bozeman or Flathead valley. Montana is extremely expensive.
Pittsfield is a dump, run down with a mjor drug problem. You couln’t pay me enough to live therfe.
who comes up with this list. Some of the most expensive places to live and that is where you want people to retire to…………..really.
Why are you using an aerial photo of Sarasota, Florida as your headline photo when the city isn’t listed? Makes one wonder about the accuracy of your article.
This entire “retire in usa” is so obviously pro Trump and his party! Why are you couching your hidden agenda in articles to help seniors and sneak these thoughts into their heads? You should be ashamed. Please give us information, but don’t do it in such an underhanded, sly, snakelike manner. Leave the politics out and give clear, transparent information. By the way, any true patriotic American will never vote for a habitual liar, cheating on his wife, draft dodging, tax evading, racist, women no choice, no church going person like Trump. Just look at the facts. Oh and by the way, remember the Billy Bush interview? Keep your mother’s, daughter’s and wife’s private out of arm’s length of Trump. This man failed 1st grade where I was taught not to lie, cheat, steal or call people names like fat and ugly! Open your eyes and call it what it is.
This entire “retire in usa” is so obviously pro Trump and his party! Why are you couching your hidden agenda in articles to help seniors and sneak these thoughts into their heads? You should be ashamed. Please give us information, but don’t do it in such an underhanded, sly, snakelike manner. Leave the politics out and give clear, transparent information. By the way, any true patriotic American will never vote for a habitual liar, cheating on his wife, draft dodging, tax evading, racist, women no choice, no church going person like Trump. Just look at the facts. Oh and by the way, remember the Billy Bush interview? Keep your mother’s, daughter’s and wife’s private out of arm’s length of Trump. This man failed 1st grade where I was taught not to lie, cheat, steal or call people names like fat and ugly! Open your eyes and call it what it is.
Most are ultra liberal towns; no to that. Liberals are arrogant, think they are better than everyone else, most are Godless. That would be hell living around people like that. Sure there will be exceptions to that, but that is just what it is, a smaller number of exceptions.
I wouldn’t touch any of these “so-called” retirement places! Yuck and yuck. Who came up with this list and how did they come up with the “criteria” for this list?? Wasted my time skimming through it.
Are you fucking retarded? This is the worst compilation ever. Every town mentioned is a POS liberal town with freezing weather.
So true, great info for those who are not familiar with the area and changes. Harbor Park has also changed. Thank you
Currently a lifelong resident of Erie Pa. Great place to live and I do it for less than $1500. a month. Winters are much milder and summer, spring, and fall is much warmer. It has a beautiful lake and forests. Surprised that it isn’t listed for one of the most reasonable?
Every single one of these places is way too expensive to live for retirees, except possibly West Virginia, but I may be wrong! Do some research and it’ll tell you to stay away from those states as retirees!! The Northeast is not where retirees want to be! Connecticut? Are you serious?? How old is the journalist writing this piece…25??
I didn’t find the nine cities or what ever but I found like of anti-trump scare stuff the left will do anyhing to stops trump and gop and that means lie all day long